Maybe it's not that strange that politicians in the 21 century find it hard to justify supporting the arts. The arts are supposed to play an important role in our democracy, but today it's purely become entertainment. And sometimes not even that.
Where are the artists who dare to provoke, who dare to have an opinion, the long lost artists with a spine. Where are the Frank Zappa's in the world of generation y?
There was a time when arts mattered, and that time is ours to take back.
Patrick White wrote in 1950:
"It was the exaltation of the average that made me panic the most"
Luckily he is not alive to see the state of the arts in 2010.
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